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15 teams shortlisted for €2m SFI prizes in food and plastics Image: © cienpiesnf/Stock.adobe.com 15 teams are set to compete in the next SFI Future Innovator Prize programmes, with projects focused on ocean health, sustainable batteries and more. Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris, TD, has announced 15 teams shortlisted for two Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Future Innovator Prize programmes. The challenge-based funding programme was first launched in 2018, calling on researchers to address major societal problems, such as the climate...

A new collective agreement designed to protect the rights of thousands of offshore workers has gained the support of the industry.

Calls for uniform offshore Covid testing after outbreak on North Sea rig Updated: 26/01/2021, 6:04 pm © Supplied 17 people have tested positive on Ithaca's FPF-1 platform. Union chiefs have called for standardised Covid-19 testing following an outbreak on board a North Sea platform. Initially four cases were identified – but a further 13 positive tests were recorded over the weekend. Production on the rig – which is stationed 150 miles east of Aberdeen – was halted in response to the outbreak, and bosses are removing workers from the platform. A leaked internal update shows Ithaca does...

Focus intensifies on impact of tiny plastics on human body Irish researchers helping international effort to close knowledge gap Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 06:00   The impact of plastic pollution in our oceans, on our coastlines, in our soils and ultimately in our food and water has become a hot topic for environmentalists around the world – and, increasingly, for public-health specialists. British broadcaster and natural historian David Attenborough’s Blue Planet series highlighted how sea creatures and fish species were dying from becoming entangled in plastic debris or eating microplastics...

Shell is planning 330 job cuts from its UK oil and gas business, the majority in Aberdeen, as part of its global restructuring.